David Thorstad’s readers and funders are effective altruists that want someone to tell them how bad they are. I don’t think they care much about the strength of the arguments, and they might even prefer weak arguments to strong ones. He collects things from sneerclub, Torres, and the most downvoted comments and posts to stir drama. People enjoy that enough to read him and fund him.
David Thorstad’s readers and funders are effective altruists that want someone to tell them how bad they are. I don’t think they care much about the strength of the arguments, and they might even prefer weak arguments to strong ones. He collects things from sneerclub, Torres, and the most downvoted comments and posts to stir drama. People enjoy that enough to read him and fund him.
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